TOP 100: VAGABOND FICTION

Since its first issue, Vagabond has been the only media introducing contemporary Bulgarian literature and writers to English-speaking audience. The first to feature was Kapka Kassabova, the Bulgarian-born author living in Scotland, and Street Without a Name, her brilliant memoir for childhood under Socialism and revisiting modern Bulgaria.

In 2008, Vagabond became the partner of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, created by the bestselling author of The Historian in a bid to promote Bulgarian literature abroad. The EKF organises annual creative writing seminars in Sozopol, gathering Bulgarian and foreign authors who are then published in Vagabond. The foundation, together with Open Letter Books, also publishes Bulgarian authors in the US.

Here is an alphabetical list of the authors, who you have read in Vagabond:

VAGABOND VIDEO

On 4 February 1997 President Petar Stoyanov, who had just taken Bulgaria by storm, finally brought political enemies together to agree on a settlement that would pull the country back from the brink of civil unrest.

Looking back at pictures from the time, he tells us how he took Bulgaria closer to the Western world and firmly on course for membership of the EU. Produced by www.mycentury.tv